Global settings:

Even if you do not plan to make any changes, you should visit this page at least one time as the ad module will perform a series of sanity tests when you visit this page, alerting you to any installation problems.

This page begins by displaying the path to serve.php. If you see an error here, then the ad module is not properly installed. Review the directions in INSTALL.txt to properly install the ad module.

In the General section you can specify what happens when an advertisement is clicked. For example, you can choose to have the resulting Destination URL opened in the same browser window, or in a new browser window. You can also enable the "nofollow" check box causing ads served by the ad module to include rel="nofollow" in automatically generated links. You can select to display advertisements using JavaScript, jQuery, IFrames, or Raw HTML. Finally, you can disable URL validation, and enable advertisement filtering.

Checking 'Filter ads' allows you to apply Drupal's standard input filters to your advertisements. If you enable this option, be sure to apply a compatible filter that doesn't strip away the

and other tags used by the various advertisement types.

The next section allows you to configure IFrames, if you are using them to display advertisements.

For better performance, you can also enable a cache. At this time there is only a file cache available. When the file cache is enabled, ads are quickly displayed from a cache file without bootstrapping Drupal. On very busy websites you may need to increase the number of cache files to prevent cache file contention.